Kerbside recycling

Your recycling is collected every fortnight in the following containers:

Blue recycling sack is for card and cardboard- please see below for more details.

Black recycling box is for paper, magazines, glass bottles/jars, cans/tins and aerosols - please see below for more details.

White recycling sack is for plastic bottles, food trays, yogurt pots and other types of mixed rigid plastic- please see below for more details.

You must place your recycling containers at the kerbside by 7am on your collection day, but no earlier than the previous evening. Please ensure your containers are visible from the roadside. Make sure the position does not endanger other pavement or highway users.

To find your house's bin and recycling collection dates please:

Type your house number and street or postcode in the My Cotswold box and click Go

Find your address in the list and click the Select your address button

Your house's bin and recycling collection dates are displayed in the box

If you are a new resident and you are missing a grey wheelie bin or refuse sacks, please contact us. You can ask for recycling and refuse containers on the 'request a container' button. To register with us to vote and to sign up for Council tax please use the links shown.

Additional recycling containers

We can supply up to three blue sacks and three kerbside boxes per household. Please use the 'Request a container' button for additional ones to be delivered to you, or collect them from the Council offices in Cirencester or Moreton-in-Marsh.

Missed recycling collections

If your recycling containers are not emptied please contact us. Please do not contact us before 4pm as the crews may still be on their way to your property.

Blue recycling sack

Yes please

All cardboard boxes

Cereal boxes

Egg boxes

Food packaging boxes

Greeting cards

No thanks

Tetra Pak-type cartons (these can be taken to recycling banks)

Paper

Plastics

Garden or food waste

Household waste

Foil based wrapping paper

Please flatten card and cardboard and place it in your reusable blue sack. Occasional excess cardboard can be left out in pieces cut down a maximum of one metre by one metre. Please place it tidily next to your blue bags on your collection day. Packaging from large appliances or big-screen televisions etc. will not be collected unless it has been cut down.

Black recycling box

Yes please

Newspapers

Magazines

Junk mail

Telephone directories and Yellow Pages

Envelopes (please remove plastic windows from window envelopes)

Thin catalogues and brochures

Letters and general paper

Shredded paper provided it is inside a paper bag or large paper envelope

Food and drinks cans (please wash and squash)

EMPTY aerosol cans (do not squash)

Glass bottles and jars (please wash)

No thanks

Cardboard

Thick, mail order clothing catalogues

Foil based wrapping paper

General household rubbish

Plastic wrappers

Plastic bottles or film

Textiles

Broken glass - the contents of the boxes are sorted manually at the kerbside by the crew, and they risk injury if there is broken glass in the boxes.